Multicultural Counseling in the 21st Century: A Paradigm and Framework for Professional Counseling Services

Authors

  • Prio Utomo Institut Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Siliwangi, Cimahi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9826-6066
  • Nor Junainah Mohd. Isa Sultan Idris Education University, Tanjong Malim
  • Muhammad Farid Ilhamuddin Universitas Negeri Surabaya

Keywords:

Multicultural counseling, Paradigm, counseling; Paradigm; Professional, The 21st century

Abstract

Multicultural counseling is a new hope and paradigm in the 21st century, it is based on that multicultural counseling contributes to providing counseling services based on emphasizing cultural aspects. In this case, a school counselors needs to give ap-preciation and assessment of the culture adopted by the counselee without belittling or marginalizing his culture. This study aims to review the urgency of multicultural counseling as a new paradigm in the 21st century. The Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was used to represent the urgency of multicultural counseling services as a theoretical strength with a broad framework for counseling practice.. The SLR results outline seven discussions,, including (1) culture in the context of multicultural counseling; (2) multicultural counseling: paradigm; (3) cultural dimensions in the multicultural counseling process; (4) the competence of school counselors in multicultural counseling; (5) approaches in multicultural counseling; (6) multicultural counseling model; (7) multicultural counseling: new hopes and paradigms for the 21st century. These results have contribute as material for study both theoretically regarding the urgency of multicultural counseling as a new paradigm and counseling services in Indonesia

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2023-08-15

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Utomo, P., Isa, N. J. M. ., & Ilhamuddin, M. F. (2023). Multicultural Counseling in the 21st Century: A Paradigm and Framework for Professional Counseling Services. Indonesian Journal of Guidance and Counseling Research, 1(2), 51–65. Retrieved from https://ejournal.aecindonesia.org/index.php/ijgcr/article/view/131